Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:29:33 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: uwp@ukrv.de (Udo Wolter) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amancio's guspnp or Luigi's snd ? Message-ID: <199711251229.NAA04544@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <9711251232.AA12626@postamt1.ukrv.de> from "Udo Wolter" at Nov 25, 97 01:31:49 pm
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> I never understood, where are the differences of the guspnp-driver (I think > Amancio wrote it) and the snd-driver (Luigi wrote it). Can anyone explain [amancio can be more precise on this, but let's wait that he wakes up -- we are located 9 hours apart on purpose so we can give 24h/day support :) ] guspnp (which has replaced the "standard" drivers based on voxware 3.0) is based on voxware 3.5 with lot of FreeBSD adaptation and cleanups by Amancio and others (e.g. the AWE support was brought in by Randall i think). In addition to the GUSPnP and the SB16, it should also support many old, non-PnP cards. A nice feature of guspnp is that it supports the synth device so you can play midi files without eating CPU cycles. On the other hand, the "pcm" driver (the one in /sys/i386/isa/snd/) is a complete rewrite of the audio driver, aiming to support newer cards (mostly PnP and MSS/WSS clones) and with special attention to multimedia applications. > which driver I should use for which soundcard ? the answer is the usual: the one which suits best your needs. Of course we will be both grateful if you can try your hardware with both drivers and report success/failure/useful configuration info, or submit patches. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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